Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Thurber

I have the reputation for having read all of Henry James. Which would argue a misspent youth and middle age.

James Surowiecki

The reason advertising is governed by fear, after all, is that most agencies rely on just a few clients to bring in the lion's share of their revenues.

James Patterson

You can call me Agent Mickelson,' he told me with a smile. 'What about you? Is Max short for something? Maxine?' 'No, Dean. It's just Max.

James McAvoy

I'd like to have stayed in the Scouts beyond the age of 12.

James Madison

The appointment of senators by the state legislatures . . . is recommended by the double advantage of favoring a select appointment, and of giving to the state governments such an agency in the formation of the federal government, as must secure the authority of the former.

Ellen Glasgow

Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty.

Ellen Glasgow

But youth isn't happy. Youth is sadder than age.

Ellen G. White

The soul that is yielded to Christ becomes His own fortress, which He holds in a revolted world, and He intends that no authority shall be known in it except His own. A soul thus kept in possession by the heavenly agencies is impregnable to the assaults of Satan.

Emily Dickinson

Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

The department remains in regular consultation with the relevant committees in Congress and with other agencies within the intelligence community, including the CIA.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development received a $4 billion increase over last year (1999) in the House bill. This is a larger increase than we gave most agencies and departments in the federal government.

The Department of Energy is a big bureaucracy.... Energy efficiency hasn't been an agency priority, it hasn't been a political priority, and so the issue has been neglected,

The development community doesn't pay that fee. The real estate agent doesn't pay that fee. The person that pays that fee is the person buying that house. They have to borrow more money (through their mortgage) to finance local government.

The development agenda is not a straightforward one; it's a process with serious hurdles, but it's a path we've chosen to go down.

The detectives with our agency followed up every lead they were given.

An agent was assaulted by an individual who threw a large-size rock. The agent, fearing for his life at that time, fired one round at the individual, who fled back to Mexico.

An agent was assaulted by an individual who threw a large size rock.

An agent passes the information over by walking near the stone and transmitting it with a special device. A spy also walking by receives this information and provides his agent with new instructions.

Among all the patients, the proportion of patients taking each agent and combinations of agents increased over the time of the study, with the peak for each occurring in 2002.

An agent for the coin's owner was carrying it to or from a collector's convention when the car crashed. We don't know what happened next.

An agent doesn't run our team. And, frankly, his agent doesn't decide where he plays.

Robert Novak

an agency operative on weapons of mass destruction.

George Eliot

An age at which many men are not quite common - at which they are hopeful of achievement, resolute in avoidance, thinking that Mammon shall never put a bit in their mouths and get astride their backs, but rather that Mammon, if they have anything to

All of this, in terms of the FOMC becoming data dependent, comes as no surprise, and the new Fed chairman has an open agenda from which to work.

All of the humanitarian agencies operating in Somalia have armed guards. We're very uncomfortable with it, but there's very little option to pull out of (the security arrangements).

All the agencies knew it would be bad enough that they should have planned better and responded quicker.

All the agencies impressed me with their insights. The way they understood our business and delivered solutions was fantastic.

All these agencies have carefully written plans. So we need to give them the chance to practice it, to see what works and what doesn't.

All the local police agencies will have their plans in place. They'll have a presence there just to be there and make sure everybody does what we expect them to anyway: behave themselves and celebrate the right way without any problems.

P. J. O'Rourke

All religions must be made child-proof. Our teachers' unions have done good work in this field, K through 12. Delaying first communions and bar mitzvahs until age 21 would be another positive step.

And he shall be unto thee a restorer of thy life, and a nourisher of thine old age: for thy daughter in law, which loveth thee, which is better to thee than seven sons, hath born him.

And he died in a good old age, full of days, riches, and honour: and Solomon his son reigned in his stead.

Jilly Cooper

And all these magazines started buying them. And my agent - my now agent - wrote to me and said these would make wonderful novels.